Around a small hamlet in southern Pennsylvania, Robert E. Lee's vaunted Army of Northern Virginia was stymied and driven back after three days, July 1st through the 3rd, of bloodletting at the Battle of Gettysburg.
A turning point in the Civil War in retrospect.
On July 4, 1863, the Confederate bastion of Vicksburg, Mississippi, the “Gibraltar of the Mississippi River” capitulated to Union forces under General Ulysses S. Grant.
A turning point in the Civil War in hindsight.
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